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jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:

|In article <TU129ZCxds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
|>FSFware is like the shareware with the scary copyright notices, except that
|>it's also surrounded with an odor of sanctity... because the donations they
|>require are less tightly connected to the almighty dollar. But the bottom line
|>of GNUware is no less coercive than the "scareware" that John is complaining
|>about.

|the only difference between FSFware and "Freeware" is you can't steal
|FSFware and pretend you wrote it.  that's about the only practical
|difference.

This is 100% off base.

GNUware has far more restrictions than most freeware, and the license
strongly resembles a virus. It is quite coercive, to the point where I
won't use it in my distributions.

Sean
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